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Ljubljana Airport readies for new terminal

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Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport is expected to start work on the construction of its new terminal building by the end of the year in order for it to open its doors to the public in time for the 2020 summer season. The Maribor-based Plan B Architects have been commissioned to design the new terminal. The company recently completed the structure's design (pictured), while a tender call for the facility's construction is expected soon. Stretching over 10.000 square metres, it will feature a new departures hall with 22 check-in counters, five security lanes, three baggage reclaim carousels, a new baggage sorting area, a large duty free shop, a new premium lounge, as well as new food and beverage facilities.

Initial construction work will involve the demolition of the old administrative building, which is expected to take place during the fourth quarter of the year, while the construction of the new terminal will be carried out mostly during 2019. The existing passenger terminal, which stretches over 13.000 square metres, will also be partially renovated. The two facilities will be joined to form a single functioning unit. “The new terminal will allow us to serve peak traffic periods better, as well as future-proof the airport for the next fifteen to twenty years, resulting in an improved experience for passengers and airlines", Ljubljana Airport's General Manager, Zmago Skobir, said recently. The new terminal will significantly boost capacity from 500 to 1.280 passengers per hour.

Meanwhile, Ljubljana Airport's operator, Fraport Slovenia, saw its net profit surge over 100% during the first half of the year to 3.1 million euros. Revenue increased by 18.9% to 22 million euros, while earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) grew by 50.9% to 8.6 million euros. As previously reported, Ljubljana Airport handled a total of 831.195 travellers during the first half of the year, which is up 15% on 2017. Growth was fuelled by the launch of seven new routes by Adria Airways, as well as improved passenger numbers on almost all other flights, with exception to Vienna, Belgrade and London Gatwick.

Hope so. I mean, even poorer VNO has a railway link from the airport to the town and costs 0.70€ and takes 7 minutes from the airport to town! Crazy, right? I mean they used to be part of the USSR anyway..

Air Serbia does very well in Ljubljana, they are making good money on the route thanks to business passengers who are buying same day return tickets which tend to be very expensive.

Unfortunately Air Serbia had to reduce LJU as they don't have enough Atrs to maintain double daily flights. Also, if I am not mistaken, two weekly flights were reduce to make room for Venice. The other two weekly came from Zagreb.

All in all, JU does really well in Ljubljana, both in terms of finances and loads.

Well, as far as I remember JP dropped BEG in favour of JU and they code-shared instead. Yet again, BEG-LJU needs to become double daily for business travellers. Now that the JP Saabs are officially arriving next month, I hope they resume flights to BEG and increase existing routes to the Balkan capitals cementing its regional position.

Even you Slavio agree that LJU-INI is a very potential route. Only concern is that JP already flies to the busy trio: PRN, SKP and SOF. But the area is densly populated anyway and INI is a large city so there is a chance.

Interesting that LGW, BEG and VIE have more or less started to recover in April. I am still surprised/impressed that IST keeps on performing so well. If this trend continues it will be, once again, the busiest destination out of Ljubljana.

According to these figures, technically London, just like many east EU capitals is number 1. Because STN + LTN + LGW are London so 12,083 + 5,055 + 5,600 = 22,783.LJU is one of the few ex-YU capitals connected to 3 London airports.

The rivalry with ZAG is increasing with every single year. LJU decided to take a serious move with all those developments. I would not be surprised if JP goes long-haul within 5 years or we see long-hauls to Japan, Australia, US or Canada.

No need for A380, not the most economical aircraft. You can easily fly to China with those brand new Saab 2000s. Couple of technical stops and opportunities for pax to see some of the world along the way to their destination :)

A380 is not a good option, A321LR is. S200 is an excellent Swedish product just like Ikea, Spotify, Ericsson, Volvo and so many Swedish products and will act like a feeder.SLO is a rich country and can allow itself A321LR. I am sure JP will consider long-haul after 2020 when the modern terminal is completed.

Nope, LJU has charters from Japan so this indeed is long-haul. A possible solution is to convert LJU into a cargo long-haul hub similar to LUX or ZAZ.Sadly, there is currently no cargo, regional hub in CE + Balkans except IST.

Forget about long-haul cargo hub. High terrain north-west of the airfield and uncontrolled airspace don't allow straight-in approaches from the west. I don't see a 747 or 777 doing circling approaches. Add to that the extremely-complaining local residents living in nearby villages and you see it's not feasible at the moment.

However, get rid of the uncontrolled airspace, convince local residents not to complain about noise and extend the runway by 300-400m and we can start talking about cargo hub.

Don't forget LGG with 3690m and CGN with 3815m. However, the real problem is the terrain around, which limits takeoff performance. Some of that can be compensated with a long runway, but not a lot.

Looking at ZAG, it would be a much better choice. In the EU, airport in more or less flat area, already relatively long runway, ILS on both sides already (wouldn't take much to upgrade the other side to Cat 3b as well), a lot of room left on east and west side of the airport for expansion...

Yes, but ZAG is known for it's notorious expensive fees similar to SJJ. Business companies are not really a big fan of this. Also belonging to Fraport is more prestigious because of the name something that ZAG doesn't have.In this case LJU still gains its regional position.

Cargo business is extremely sensitive when it comes to reliability of dispatch and arrival. For example, if the weather at destination is likely to be out of limits, the aircraft is likely to wait couple of hours at origin airport, because it is much more difficult to arrange ad-hoc transport of let's say 100 tonnes of cargo than 200 pax. That's why all serious cargo hubs need Cat 3 capability from all directions and if you will take a look you will see, most of them have it.

Yes, they'll decide on when to start Zagreb service, they won't be coming to Ljubljana year round. Zagreb and Croatia attract far more Japanese visitors and as Rijeka guy said, Schengen shenanigans make things harder for Japanese. Also Japanese company requested slots at Zagreb airport, and initiated talks on new flights. We should know late this year or early next.

Same goes for Chinese carrier Hainan, they should also announce their flights at about same time. In meantime Zagreb is adding two additional gates and one or two wide body jetways, well one for wide body aircraft with two attachments, the gate can serve two A320 or a single A330/A380/B777/B787...

New Ljubljana terminal looks better than original design from last year, also larger, I think it is larger than 10 000sqm, could be 20 000sqm. looks to me two levels, 120x100m, could be 17000sqm. I think they should add at least 3 jetways if not 4 at some point in near future once the terminal is completed.

By 2025 Ljubljana will handle 3.2 million passengers, they'll need a terminal that can handle 5.5 million pax not 2 million which 10 000sqm would be.

In the latest proposal one new air bridge is indeed planned. More can be added later if needed, but LJU traffic is dominated by Adria's CRJs (and Saab's in the future) where jet bridges are not practical.

Nothing wrong with LCC. Slovenes deserve to fly for less and have more options.I am glad that U2 expanded nice and smooth just like they did in BEG. Their next move is most likely another UK destination such as MAN or BHX.

Fraport is not only about building new terminals, okay?Look elsewhere and you will see how hard they are working to take care of their baby airports. Just look at their Greek airports. KVA has an increase of 67%!!!! LJU stands proudly at 15%.

They are in talks with another supplier specializing in jet fuel, but details are scarce so far. http://www.blog.uporabnastran.si/2018/02/10/petrol-kot-edini-dobavitelj-letalskega-goriva-na-letaliscu-brnik-lju-dobiva-konkurenco-kdo-bo-drugi-dobavitelj-goriva-na-letaliscu-ljubljana/

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